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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Psychoanalysis of artwork is primarily an analysis of what?
(a) Isolated poetic images.
(b) Mental stability.
(c) The personality of the artist.
(d) Market value of art.

2. Central to the argument in "The House, from Cellar to Garret . . .," which statement is most indicative of cellar fears?
(a) Cellar fears may be reasoned away.
(b) Cellar fears precede mental illness.
(c) Cellar fears indicate childhood trauma.
(d) Cellar fears take longer to fade, and remain tentative and unknown.

3. What is a center of order in a house, according to Bachelard?
(a) Stairways.
(b) The wardrobe.
(c) Decorative objects.
(d) The brain.

4. Bachelard explains that the relationship between a small box and a person's psychology of secrecy is known as what?
(a) Poetry.
(b) Anthropo-cosmology.
(c) Homology.
(d) Cosmology.

5. For psychoanalysts, what do conflicted locks and keys in dreams symbolize?
(a) New discoveries.
(b) Temptations.
(c) Sexual intimacy.
(d) Repression.

6. What are reverberations as defined by Bachelard?
(a) Externalities, that which we hear.
(b) Internalities, that which we hear.
(c) Externalities, that which we say.
(d) Internalities, that which we say.

7. Poetic imagery is real, according to Bachelard, even though it is not subject to what?
(a) Rules of household order.
(b) Rules of grammar.
(c) Rules of logic.
(d) Rules of the marketplace.

8. Bachelard, expanding on the work of Rilke, proposes that a box top, like the cover of a pot, may do what?
(a) Create deceptions.
(b) Make the world get along better.
(c) Lead to future discovery.
(d) Maintain secrecy.

9. What does Bachelard identify as the fatal flaw of locked boxes?
(a) Locked boxes prevent intimacy.
(b) Locks can be broken and trick boxes can be figured out.
(c) Locked boxes defy discovery.
(d) Locks give negative energy to a house.

10. According to Bachelin, which is the oldest season?
(a) Autumn.
(b) Spring.
(c) Summer.
(d) Winter.

11. What is the ability to imagine?
(a) A waste of the intelligent mind.
(b) A method of filling gaps in scientific understanding.
(c) A major power of human nature.
(d) A symptom of mental illness.

12. Egg, nest, house, country, and universe are images of what, in the opinion of Bachelard?
(a) Poetic fancy.
(b) The universe.
(c) The inhabiting function.
(d) Wonders of nature.

13. What is Bachelard's metaphor of the chrysalis?
(a) From the childhood chrysalis, the butterfly moves to a new house.
(b) From the unnoticed chrysalis, the flamboyant butterfly flies.
(c) From the sturdy chrysalis, the delicate butterfly emerges.
(d) From the cottage chrysalis, the winged manor flies.

14. Poetry stimulates what sort of response in the reader in the opinion of Bachelard?
(a) Fear of isolation.
(b) A forgotten image.
(c) Appreciation for rhymes.
(d) Rhythmic thoughts.

15. The author proposes that loving the space in a house that opens to anywhere is an example of what?
(a) Poetic irony.
(b) Schizophrenia.
(c) Objective irony.
(d) Desire to move to a new house.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what iconic Van Gogh image does the author compare a bird's nest on the ground?

2. Many houses are structured in levels, as described in "The House, from Cellar to Garret . . .,"appealing to what sense?

3. The objectivity of a house, states Bachelard, is separate from what?

4. The author believes that a well-drawn representation of a house inspires observers to do what?

5. For Bachelard, breaking from the principles of scientific prudence is necessary in order to do what?

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